David Kovalchick

TMC Bonds LLC operates as a fixed income market alternative trading system. It builds customized desktop applications for registered investment professionals and the retail investors. The firm offers voice support, analytics, compliance solutions, book manager, bond insurance, integrations and STP, disaster recovery and privacy and data integrity. The company was founded by Thomas Vales in May 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.